About the HPE FlexNetwork 5520 HI
Configuration Guides
Part number: 5200-8299
Software version: Release 6525 and later
Document version: 6W100-20210810
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About the HPE FlexNetwork 5520 HI configuration
guides
The HPE FlexNetwork 5520 HI configuration guides describe the software features for the HPE
FlexNetwork 5520 HI Switch Series running Release 6525 and later, and guide you through the
software configuration procedures. These configuration guides also provide configuration examples
to help you apply the software features to different network scenarios.
Configuration guide Content
Describes how to use the command line interface of the switch, log in
to and set up the switch, and use the basic management functions.
This guide includes:
• CLI
• RBAC
• Login management (login methods including CLI, SNMP, and
RESTful, and user interface configuration and access control)
• FTP and TFTP
Fundamentals Configuration Guide • File system management
• Configuration file management
• Software upgrade
• ISSU
• Device management
• Tcl
• Python
• Automatic configuration
Describes the Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF) technology, which
provides data center class availability and scalability.
Virtual Technologies Configuration IRF creates a fabric from multiple switches. The switches that form the
Guide IRF fabric work in 1:N redundancy and appear as one unit in the
network. IRF improves management efficiency and streamlines
network topologies. It is suitable for highly reliable enterprise networks
and data centers.
Configuration guide Content
Covers Layer 2 technologies and features used on a LAN switched
network, such as VLAN technology, port isolation, and spanning tree.
You can use these features to divide broadcast domains, remove
Layer 2 loops, isolate users within a VLAN and so on. This guide
includes:
• Ethernet interface
• Loopback, null, and inloopback interfaces
• Bulk interface configuration
• MAC address table and MAC Information
• Ethernet link aggregation
• DRNI
Layer 2—LAN Switching
Configuration Guide • Port isolation
• Spanning tree
• Loop detection
• VLAN (including VLAN, private VLAN, super VLAN, and voice
VLAN)
• MVRP
• QinQ
• VLAN mapping
• LLDP
• L2PT
• PPPoE relay
Describes how to configure ARP, IP addressing, IP performance
optimization, IP forwarding basics, IPv6 basics, DHCP, DNS, UDP
helper, and DHCPv6. This guide includes:
• ARP (including gratuitous ARP, proxy ARP, ARP snooping, and
ARP direct route advertisement)
• IP addressing
• DHCP (including DHCP overview, DHCP server, DHCP relay
agent, DHCP client, DHCP snooping, and BOOTP client)
• DNS (including DDNS)
• mDNS relay
• IP forwarding basics (including basic IP forwarding on the device
and load sharing)
Layer 3—IP Services Configuration • IRDP
Guide • IP performance optimization
• Fast forwarding
• UDP helper
• Basic IPv6 settings
• DHCPv6 (including DHCPv6 overview, DHCPv6 server, DHCPv6
relay agent, DHCPv6 client, DHCPv6 snooping, and DHCPv6
guard)
• IPv6 fast forwarding
• Adjacency table
• GRE
• HTTP redirect
• Tunneling
Configuration guide Content
Covers the routing technologies for IPv4 and IPv6 networks of
different sizes, route filtering. This guide includes:
• Basic IP routing
• Static routing
• RIP
• OSPF
Layer 3—IP Routing Configuration • IS-IS
Guide • BGP
• Policy-based routing
• IPv6 static routing
• RIPng
• OSPFv3
• IPv6 policy-based routing
• Routing policy
Covers Layer 2 IPv4 multicast protocols (including IGMP snooping,
and multicast VLAN), Layer 3 IPv4 multicast protocols (including
IGMP and PIM), Layer 2 IPv6 multicast protocols (including MLD
snooping), and Layer 3 IPv6 multicast protocols (including MSDP).
This guide includes:
• Multicast overview
• IGMP snooping
• PIM snooping
• Multicast VLAN
• Multicast routing and forwarding
IP Multicast Configuration Guide
• IGMP
• PIM
• MSDP
• MLD snooping
• IPv6 PIM snooping
• IPv6 multicast VLAN
• IPv6 multicast routing and forwarding
• MLD
• IPv6 PIM
Describes the application scenarios, fundamentals, and configuration
of MPLS. This guide includes:
• Basic MPLS
• Static LSP
• LDP
MPLS Configuration Guide • MPLS L3VPN
• MPLS L2VPN
• VPLS
• MPLS OAM
• MCE and IPv6 MCE
• MPLS SR
Configuration guide Content
Describes how to classify traffic with ACLs, and allocate network
resources and manage congestions with QoS technologies to improve
network performance and network use efficiency. You can use ACLs
to help other function modules (such as QoS and IP routing) classify or
filter traffic. This configuration guide includes:
• ACL
ACL and QoS Configuration Guide • QoS (including QoS overview, QoS policy, priority mapping,
traffic policing, GTS, and rate limit, congestion management,
congestion avoidance, traffic filtering, priority marking, nesting,
traffic redirecting, global CAR, class-based accounting, and
appendixes)
• Data buffer
• Time range
Covers security features. The major security features available on the
switch include: identity authentication, secure management, and
attack protection. This guide includes:
• AAA
• 802.1X
• MAC authentication
• Portal authentication
• Web authentication
• Triple authentication
• Port security
• User profile
• Password control
• Keychain
• Public key management
• PKI
Security Configuration Guide • IPsec, IKE, and IKEv2
• SSH
• SSL
• Attack detection and prevention
• TCP attack prevention
• IP source guard
• ARP attack protection
• ND attack defense
• uRPF
• SAVI
• MFF
• Crypto engine
• FIPS
• MACsec
• 802.1X client
• SAVA
Configuration guide Content
Describes high availability technologies and features available on the
switch for failure detection and failover. Failure detection technologies
focus on fault detection and isolation. Failover technologies focus on
network recovery. This guide includes:
• Ethernet OAM
• CFD
• DLDP
High Availability Configuration • RRPP
Guide • ERPS
• Smart Link
• Monitor Link
• VRRP
• BFD
• Track
• Process placement
Describes features that help you manage and monitor your network,
for example, manage system events, and test network connectivity.
This guide includes:
• System maintenance and debugging (ping, tracert, and system
debugging)
• NQA
• iNQA
• NTP (including SNTP)
• PoE
• SNMP
• RMON
• Event MIB
• NETCONF
Network Management and • CWMP
Monitoring Configuration Guide • EAA
• Process monitoring and maintenance
• Mirroring (including both port and flow mirroring)
• sFlow
• Information center
• Packet capture
• VCF fabric
• Ansible
• Chef
• Puppet
• EPS agent
• eMDI
• Service quality analysis (SQA)
Describes the application scenarios, fundamentals, and configuration
Telemetry Configuration Guide
of gRPC.
Describes the application scenarios, fundamentals, and configuration
OpenFlow Configuration Guide
of OpenFlow.
Describes the application scenarios, fundamentals, and configuration
VXLAN Configuration Guide
of VXLAN.
Configuration guide Content
Describes the application scenarios, fundamentals, and configuration
of EVPN. This guide includes:
EVPN Configuration Guide
• EVPN overview
• EVPN VXLAN
Describes the application scenarios and fundamentals of service
Service Chain Configuration Guide
chains.
Acronyms Lists the significant acronyms in the configuration guides.
